Category: Forging Equality

Originally posted on 3/12/2021 By the Continuations Committee of Labor and Community for an Independent Party (LCIP) Warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama are organizing a union amid mounting pressure and anti-union tactics levied against them by the mammoth e-commerce corporation known as Amazon. Just the name Amazon conjures up “nuff said” responses in understanding the uphill battle of the Amazon

Originally published on 1/8/2021 January 6, 2021 at 10:35 p.m. PST Labor and Community for an Independent Party (LCIP) condemns the January 6, 2021 actions of right-wing, confederate-flag-waving protestors who demonstrated and violently entered the Capitol as a response to POTUS Donald Trump’s call to “take back the country.” While the U.S. Congress met to certify the Electoral College votes

Originally published on 11/12/2020 As we approach the end of 2020, it is clear that Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump for the US presidency, having won both the popular vote and the Electoral College by significant majorities. Nonetheless, Trump still has not conceded, despite losing numerous vote recounts and more than 50 lawsuits claiming fraud, as well as failing to

Originally published on 9/26/2020 • Message from BALDEMAR VELASQUEZ, President of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), to the “Break the Grip of the Two-Party System” National Conference [Intro Note: Baldemar Velasquez, president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC, AFL-CIO), was not able to attend the conference because of union negotiations in North Carolina. He sent the following message

Originally published on 9/26/2020 Closing Three Presentations to the conference by (1) Millie Phillips, (2) Alan Benjamin and (3) Nnamdi Lumumba (1) “Going Forward”: Presentation to Closing Plenary Session of the Conference by MILLIE PHILLIPS, Steering Committee member, Labor Fightback Network What an amazing discussion! Let’s congratulate ourselves! What we are proposing is one of the hardest things ever done.

“Who We Are: Statement of Purpose” Excited! Excited to see all of you here and eager to discuss with you the issues and strategies that will form the basis for organizing a working-class labor party in the USA. Lately, my mantra has been “We are the ones we have been waiting for,” a phrase from Poem for South African Women,

Originally published on 9/9/2020 (titles listed for id. only) Nancy Wohlforth, Secretary-Treasurer Emerita, OPEIU (AFL-CIO) (Washington, DC) The time is now to begin laying the groundwork of an independent, labor-based political party. Two resolutions adopted by the national convention of the AFL-CIO in October 2017 are our reference point. The first one states, “Whether the candidates are elected from the

Originally published on 8/22/2020 VOICES FOR INDEPENDENT WORKING-CLASS POLITICS By E.J. Esperanza (Immigrant Rights Activist) (presentation to the April 25 Expanded Organizing Committee meeting of Labor and Community for an Independent Party / LCIP) It’s with great enthusiasm that I join you all here today. I join you as a removal defense attorney, yes, but first and foremost, as an

Originally published on 8/17/2020 Conference September 19-20, 2020 Millions of workers and youth have taken to the streets since police officers in Minneapolis assassinated George Floyd. Despite the COVID-19 restrictions, they took to the streets in ever-growing mass protests — forging an insurgent movement not seen in many decades — to demand an end to police terror and systemic racism.